There’s another element to the abortion rights conversation, and that has to do with the separation of church and state. “It’s also a slap in the face to my own religious freedom,” says Molly Wernick.
Authors and podcast hosts Karen KIlgariff and Georgia Hardstark make meaning from their mutual obsession with murder, serial killers, cold cases, survivor stories, kidnappings, and all other things that fall under the category of “inappropriate for the general public.”
Let the revolutions of these characters, facing the worst kinds of religious and cultural patriarchy, buoy you.
Not only were the children of women who could not access abortion in greater economic peril, but they were also more delayed in terms of their development, and their mothers reported feelings of being trapped and poor maternal bonding.
The dog days of summer are here, but there’s still plenty of time to stretch out with a good book. Here is a glimpse of the memoirs and novels we’re reading this August — look for part two next week!
Here we are, in the grip of another Wedding Season. Perhaps you’re a perpetual bridesmaid, or the one getting married, or you’re not particularly into marriage as a life choice… Read more »
There is good news, points out Yamani Hernandez, and that is that 72% of the population supports safe legal access to abortion.
There’s a sturdy argument to be made that it was completely justifiable to publish the abandoned diary, that Anne, the talented writer, would have been more than fine with it, that she was writing not just for herself, but to leave a detailed account of her experience. She revised the book as she wrote it. But these pages? These deliberately hidden pages?
We need you, Bloody Hour, to believe us when we tell you we’re bleeding, to keep politicizing menstruation, and to give us a nice cocktail to take the edge off.
Written by the left for the left, this report strikes a very different tone than some may be used to.
